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Posts, tutorials, and projects from a software engineer at Cal. I love working with systems, machine learning, and iOS.

I needed a way to patch games executables. More specifically PSP games executables. My only other alternative I knew at that time was using assembler …

Recently, I stumbled upon Brad Wilson’s post - Anatomy of a Prompt (PowerShell) and decided that I also want to have a fancy-looking command prompt …

This is part 3 of a three-part series on interesting abstractions for zero-copy deserialization I’ve been working on over the last year. This part is …

If there is one JavaScript library that could be classified as the Swiss Army Knives of JavaScript, it would have to be Lodash. Lodash is a tool that …

I know that an i386 Debian can be easily installed using debootstrap on a already installed x86_64 Debian. But the scenario is an i386 Debian is …

We can’t yet compile the stock version of libcore, so in the meantime we have our own version with the essentials. Because we’ve directly …

A month ago, Amazon released Amazon Linux 2015.03, their “continuous release” Linux distribution. Widespread sadness ensued, and I …

Muy buenas. Hacía tiempo que no publicaba nada, pido disculpas por ello. El portal especializado en juegos Free Apps For Me ha publicado esta reseña …

Citation “Exposing Fine-Grained Parallelism in Algebraic Multigrid Methods”Nathan Bell, Steven Dalton, and Luke OlsonSIAM Journal on …

Your freedom to carry a gun messes with my freedom to walk around without fear. Your freedom to “stand your ground” with force is at odds with my …

I’ve recently been dipping my toes in the very deep water that is “undefined behavior” in C and C++, and the more I learn about it, the scarier it …

A year ago, I had this idea: I was going to write things down. To be clear, this wasn’t a novel idea, and definitely not a new one by any …

Introduction Today we had a funny task for our company internal Google Maps powered system. We should show simple geo markers on a map, having …

After seven years, it is time to bid farewell to the Food Fight Show. Thank you for listening and supporting the show over the years. Please share …

TLDR; Functional programming techniques makes it possible to reduce the amount of boiler plate code required when working with JavaScript libraries …

Every wanted to roll the dice in Haskell? Let’s say you have a data type like 1 2 data Number = One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six deriving …

Google recently removed their Apps tab and I really liked it. After a few minutes of searching, I came up with a very simple way to get it back: …

Building a node web app at scale with AWS Lambda May 20th, 2016 Recently I built a web app for the Eurovision Song Contest. Here are the things I …

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 03. Dezember bis zum 09. Juni: LocalSend - is an open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop. Komorebi - is a …

So my favorite console on OS X is iTerm2. When I’m working with multiple servers, one of the most useful features is “Broadcast Input& …

Octopress has treated me well over the years, but with the advent of more modern blogging platforms like Ghost I decided it was time to switch. Check …

In this post I interpret design patterns and principles commonplace in object-oriented programming languages from the perspective of functional …

In November 2022 while recovering from a Covid infection I found a Lenovo ThinkPad X13s on ebay.com for 600$. It had 16GB of RAM, 512GB of SSD, and a …

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Only 14.5% of engineers in the job force today are women. Why is that? Is it because women make terrible engineers? No, it isn’t. Women make …

I figured I’d try another VM from Vulnhub for a change. This is Lord of the Root v1.0.1.

Гости и участники @abashev Антон Черноусов Темы https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-q-developer-in-github-now-in-preview-with-code-generation- …

This was somewhat of a shocker and I fully acknowledge I may be missing some info here during my limited 2 day research debugging why an app was …

\O/ Idris 0.9.10 is out. Haddock files have been updated on this site.

Got borked PCBs that didn’t quite work out? Great! Instead of just taking up space, just turn them into useful coasters to protect that Parnian …

This is an experiment where we try to find out how much faster Postgres will run if patch it to support non-durable reads. Postgresql supports a …

まぁなんとかやってます 久々にブログ書きます。 というか、勉強会も行ってきたの久しぶりかもしれない。。。 という訳なので、勉強会で取ったメモメモ (資料はどこかに上がってる) Slices氏 資料 (端末の検索)検索結果の中に自分のアプリのアクションを出せる …

I’ve recently had to set up and manage about a dozen Linux based virtual servers (not a huge number, but still) and it’s handly to have a separate …

I spoke at Droidcon NYC 2014 on the topic of ‘Writing Maintainable Android Applications’. I had a few requests for the slides so wanted …

I have recently been checking out rails-6.0.0.rc1. I immediatly ran into an issue when trying to run controller specs with rspec-rails. Running any …

I needed a couple of AA batteries and found the display at the supermarket where they were all arrayed. Normally when I’m shopping in the …